Adjustable repair tongue hound



F. J. DULTMEIER. ADJUSTABLE REPAIR TONGUE HOUND. APPLICATION FILED JULY 6. I920.

Patented J 11}; 111, 1922.,

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK J. DULTMEIER, OF MANNING, IOWA.

ADJUSTABLE REPAIR TONGUE HOUND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 11, 1922.

Application filed July 6, 1920. Serial No. 394,315.

To all whom it may COYLOGTTL Be it known that I, FRANK J. DULTMEIER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Manning, in the county of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented a certain new and useful Adjustable Repair Tongue Hound, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an adjustable hound structure particularly adapted for repair purposes.

More particularly it is my object to provide an adjustable hound that can be readily and easily attached to any ordinary wooden tongue of any ordinary make of wagon to take the place of original hounds, which may have been broken or worn out, and which is easy to apply and of simple and inexpensive construction.

Vvith these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a top or plan view of the wooden tongue with an adjustable hound thereon.

Figure 2 is a transverse, vertical, sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a side elevation of the device.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal, vertical, sectional view of the same; and 1 Figure 5 is a transverse, vertical, sectional view of a tongue having a modified form of my device thereon.

It is well-known that there are on the market a great many different kinds and sizes of wagons and tongues and tongue hounds. The local dealer rarely finds it profitable to keep in stock repair tongues and hounds for all makes of wagons. The result is that frequently the user of the wagon, if he break his tongue or hounds, finds that he is subject to a long delay in securing the tongues or hounds from the factory.

I have provided an adjustable repair hound, which can be used with practically any wooden tongue that the dealer may have in stock. With my device, it will be possible for the dealer to carry a few hounds, and be able to furnish hounds for any wooden tongue, which might be on the wagon, the

hounds of which were broken, or might be in stock.

In the accompanying drawings, by which I have illustrated my invention, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicate generally the rear end of an ordinary wooden wagon tongue. It will readily be seen from the following explanation that the tongue itself may be as shown in the drawing, or might be tapered in the various shapes well-known to the trade.

My improved repair hound comprises in the form shown in Figures 1 to 1, channel bars 11 and 12, which are placed on the upper and lower surfaces of the rear end of the tongue, with their open sides adjacent to the tongue to which said bars are bolted. Received in the channel bars are the heads of bolts 13, which extend respectively upwardly and downwardly through the respective upper and lower channel bars 11 and 12.

I preferably provide two of these bolts for each bar 11 and 12. The heads of the bolts 13 are angular and are held by the walls of the channel bars 11 and 12 against rotation.

My hound comprises two hound members 1&, similar in construction, spaced from the tongue on opposite sides thereof, and preferably having the wear plates 15 on their outer faces.

Secured to each hound member 1 1, near its forward end, by means of a bolt 16 is a pair of vertically spaced links 17, which preferably extend inwardly and forwardly as illustrated in Figures 1 and 3, and are pivoted to plates 16 by bolts 16. The plates 16 are fixed to the tongue by means of bolts 16*, and are provided with a curved portion or 100 16 in which the blots 16 are received.

ne link connected with each hound member is extended to position above the tongue and the other link to position below the tongue, as illustrated for instance in Figures 2 and 3.

Pivoted to each bolt 16, one above and below each hound member is an adjustable link 17*. The links l7 extend to and overlap the tongue 10. The inner ends of the links 17 are provided with elongated slots 18, which receive the forward bolts 13.

After the links 17 have been adjusted to proper position, as for instance illustrated in Figure 1, nuts 19' are screwed tightly on the bolts 13, which hold the hound members in proper position.

. in-I 1er-eI 1ds are. arranged as shown in Fig-' ure2, and their outer ends as shown in the samefigure. r

The channel bars Hand 12 are preferably rigidlygsecured to the tongue by means of the bolts 24;

In the tongue 10 is a horizontal, transverse opening for therod -26,'which ex-v tends through slots 27 in the hound members 14 and 15. The slot 25 is large enough. to

. allow. proper play of the rod 26.

By using the channel bars 11 and the bolts 13 mounted therein, '1 am able to grip the links 17 and 21'between the nuts 19 and 23 and metal surfaces, so that said links maybe securely locked in any of their various adjusted positions. By loosening the nuts 19 and 23, the links may be adjusted for; adjusting the tongue hounds to the wagon houndsof any wagon.

In Figure 5, I have showna modified form of device in which bars or strips 30 are used instead of channel bars, and'bolts 13 having their headscountersunk in the stripsSO are used in place of the bolts 13.

- It will bezseen that I have provided an adjustable repair hound, which is of very simple and inexpensive construction, and which can be adapted for use with practieally any type of any wooden tongue. Should the wooden tongue be tapered toward the rear end from top to bottom, the bars 11 and 12 will still fit, and the inner ends of the upper links 21 maybe drawn toward the inner ends of the lower links 21, and the device may be easily made to fit.

It is my intention to cover by my claims, any variations in the form of structure of my hound device, which may be included within their scope.

.I-claim as m invention:

1. The combination of a tongue having flat top and bottom surfaces with bars resting on said top and bottom surfaces and fastened to said tongue, screw-threaded membcrs securedjto said plates against rotation, and extending upwardly from the top bar and downwardly from the lower bar, spaced hound members, a pair of links pivoted to the forward end of each hound member, one member of each pair of links being adjustably mounted on the forward bolt of the upper bar, and the other member of each pair being mounted onthe forward bolt of the lower bar, means for fastening said links on said bolts against movement, a pair of link pivoted to the rear end of each hound member, one member of each of said latter pairs of links being adjustably mounted on the rear upper bolt, and the other member of each of said latter pairs being adjustably mounted on the rear lower bolt, and means for securing said rear links rigidly to said rear bolts;

2. The combination of a tongue having fiat top and bottom surfaces with a pair of channel bars mounted on said top and bot-. tom surfaces and secured to said tongue, with their openings adjacent thereto, screwthreaded angular headed bolts mounted in said bars with said heads held in said chan nel bars against rotation and extending forwardly from the upper bar and downwardly from the lower bar respectively near the forward andrear ends thereof, a pair of spaced hound members, a pair of links pivoted to the forward end of each hound member and extending toward said tongue, said links having longitudinally elongated slots at their inner ends, the upper link of each of said pairs having the upper forward bolt extended through its slot, and the lower link of each of said pairs having the lower forward bolt extending through its slot, nuts for locking said links on said forward bolts, a pair of links pivoted to the rear end of each hound member, having elongated slots at their inner ends, the upper links 'of each of said latter pairs having the rear upper bolt extended through its slot, and the lower link of each of the latter pair of links having the rear lower bolt extended through-its slot, nuts on the rear bolts for locking the latter pair of links thereon, and links for connecting the forward ends of said hound members with said tongue.

Des Moines, Iowa, November 2 1, 1919.

FRANK VJ. DULTMEIER. 

